Sen. Marco Rubio’s foreign policy speech on Wednesday at the Brookings Institution was going smoothly until he got to the last page - in fact, there was no last page.

“Above all else, the 21st century provides us the opportunity for more freedom. A world where more people are free to grow their economies. Free to pursue their dreams. Free to become prosperous,” Rubio said as he was winding up his eagerly anticipated 35-minute address.

After a brief pause, the senator said to the audience, “I left my last page of the speech. Does anybody have my last page?”

Thankfully, Marvin Kalb, a guest scholar with the organization who moderated the afternoon event, was able to hand the senator his copy of the speech -including page 10, the last page - as the audience broke into laughter.

Why couldn’t the senator just improvise the last few minutes? Because he was determined conclude the speech by reading lengthy a quote from Tony Blair.

“This is why I needed the page,” Rubio said, as he proceeded to read out loud a 2003 quote from the former British prime minister.